New Jazz – NJLP 8202Rec. Date : October 25 & December 6, 1957Stream this Album Bari Sax : Cecil Payne, Pepper AdamsBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Elvin Jones, Louis HayesPiano : Tommy Flanagan, Bill EvansTrombone : Jimmy Cleveland, Frank RehakTrumpet : Idrees Sulieman Billboard : 12/22/1958 This album is devoted to the down home…
Blue Note – BLP 4017Rec. Dates : August 29 & 30, 1959, September 13, 1959 Stream this Album Piano : Horace SilverBass : Gene TaylorDrums : Louis HayesTenor Sax : Junior CookTrumpet : Blue Mitchell Billboard : 11/23/1959 Real funky jazz in the progressive vein is this new Horace Silver LP, with all seven tunes…
Riverside – RLP 12-311Rec. Dates : 10/18 & 10/20/1959Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball AdderleyBass : Sam JonesCornet : Nat AdderleyDrums : Louis HayesPiano : Bobby Timmons Billboard : 12/28/1959 Cannonball and company generate a lot of live excitement on this “on location” assignment. The set was cut at San Francisco’s Jazz Workshop, with Adderley introducing the numbers. The…
Columbia – PG 34650Rec. Dates : December 11 & 12, 1976Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Dexter GordonBass : Stafford JamesDrums : Louis HayesFluegelhorn : Woody ShawPiano : Ronnie MathewsTrumpet : Woody Shaw Cashbox : 04/23/1977 This double album, done live at the Village Vanguard, accurately captures the excitement of Dexter’s visit last fall. Eight stretched-out titles with good…
Prestige – PRLP 7116Rec. Date : February 9, 1957 Alto Sax : Phil Woods, Gene Quill,Sahib Shihab, Hal SteinBass : Tommy PotterDrums : Louis HayesPiano : Mal Waldron Listening to Prestige : #208Stream this Album Billboard : 12/30/1957Score of 80 An uninhibited, blowing session by four “Parker-oriented” altoists that exudes more than its share of heat, and allows for extended improvisations. All…
Blue Note – BLP 4008Rec. Date : February 1, 1959 Piano : Horace SilverBass : Gene TaylorDrums : Louis HayesTenor Sax : Junior CookTrumpet : Blue Mitchell Strictlyheadies : July 11, 2019Stream this Album Billboard : 04/27/1959Three Stars Horace Silver and his quintet have come thru with a real funky album here, one that will appeal to those hard bop fans who…
Milestone – MSP 9008Rec. Date : August 10, 1967Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Joe HendersonBass : Ron CarterDrums : Louis HayesPiano : Kenny BarronTrombone : Grachan MoncurTrumpet : Mike Lawrence Asbury Park PressDon Lass : 02/24/1968 Henderson is a young tenor saxophonist with ideas. He is an alumnus of the Horace Silver Quintet and his conception of jazz shows how deeply Silver and…
Prestige – PRLP 7107Rec. Date : May 11, 1957 Trombone – Curtis FullerAlto Sax : Sonny Red KyserBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Louis HayesPiano : Hank Jones Listening to Prestige : #235Stream this Album MetronomeJack Maher : January, 1958 This is the best of the Curtis Fuller offerings to date. The young, Detroit trombonist has a lot of confidence to…
Riverside - RLP 344 / 9344Rec. Date : October 16, 1960Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball AdderleyBass : Sam JonesCornet : Nat AdderleyDrums : Louis HayesPiano : Victor Feldman Cashbox : 12/10/1960Jazz Pick of the Week Adderley returns to the West Coast, the scene of his first “live” LP triumph, for his third quintet outing for the label. The group…
New Jazz – NJLP 8231Rec. Dates : February 15, 1957, August 30, 1957Stream this Album Alto Sax, Tenor Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Arthur Phipps, Paul ChambersDrums : Art Taylor, Louis HayesPiano : Mal Waldron, Gil CogginsTrombone : Curtis FullerTrumpet : Webster Young Cashbox : 06/25/1960 McLean’s emergence as a major new alto voice is marked by heaving recording activity, of which this session…
